Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 23, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free april 1990 president Vytatus Landsbergis addresses lithuanians Pray for gods help by Warren Canagata the Canadian press lithuanians prayed for Freedom and gods help yesterday As they faced their fourth Day of a soviet imposed economic i simply ask god to take care of Lithuania during this difficult Peri said Regina zem Kariene As she and her two children left morning mass at the roman Catholic Cathe dral in the Centre of old lithuanian leaders claim the so Viets have ordered an end to the shipment of All products destined for the breakaway Baltic but a senior communist official from Moscow said Only Energy supplies have been plans for a total blockade dont said Andrei the Secretary responsible for nationalities policy at the communist party Central committee in lithuanian Deputy Premier Romualdas Vozolas said the soviets Are continuing to tighten the economic noose and called Giren Kos comment Vozolas said saturday that Moscow had imposed a total economic blockade on he insisted yesterday that it was still the lithuanian govern ment sent a Telegram to soviet pre Mier Nikolai Ryzhkova saying that the soviet cutoff of fuel and raw materials would choke lithuanian processing and manufacturing of goods meant for Export and the soviet the government Telegram said production of Oil and Gas automobile Brake television and other components will soon have to be the Republic depends entirely on soviet resources at subsidized the lithuanian government is considering the introduction of food rationing to Deal with shortages that it claims result from the supplies of animal feed have also been and calves and piglets will be sold for Vozolas the soviets have so far confirmed Only that Oil shipments have been stopped and natural Gas on the orders of soviet president Mikhail Sirenko said most of the goods Lithuania receives from the soviet Union Are still being he spoke during a news conference at the end of a convention of a communist Rump party left when the major Ity of lithuanian communists voted last last year to break ties with Moscow and establish a National communist party committed to in Sirenko complained that Lithuania leaders throw words like blockades and occupation around too easily and use them to inflame the not a the measures that have been taken in accordance with the Deci Sion of the president can in no Way be considered a blockade of the lithuanian he in lithuanian pre Mier Kazimiera Prunskiene said she has been offered Western financial in Oslo i already received offers of financial help by Tel fax and Tele she told an Appeal issued yesterday by the saudis popular front which now holds a majority in the lithuanian parliament said lithuanians Are being tested and May be tested fur no nation has won its Independence without great efforts and Sac the Appeal i Solidarity urges quicker x u it Reform Poland a Hie Solidarity Trade Union urged the govern inert yesterday to step up the Pace of Reform and called for new elections to remove communists holdovers from a Resolution approved by delegates to Soli Darity second National Congress demanded that new elections be held by Spring the Resolution said the parliament elected in june 1989 does not reflect the real arrangement of forces in the it also called for direct elections of the presi the incumbent Wojciech was elected by parliament last parliamentary elections Are not scheduled until and Jaruzelski six year term runs until elections could be held earlier under an overhaul of the Constitution now under in a criticism of the government of primer minister Tadeusz a former Solidarity the Resolution said economic and political reforms must occur More Poland is changing from a centrally planned socialist Economy to a Market oriented capitalist As part of the the government has introduced a Shock therapy economic austerity program that has reduced inflation but has put people out of Solidarity chairman Lech Walesa has said the Mazowiecki government has not moved quickly enough to remove communists from govern ment ministries and key economic lagging behind others the Resolution was approved on the fourth Day of the unions As delegates debate Solidarity role it pos communist it reflects the belief among Many Solidarity activists that Poland is now lagging behind other Eastern european countries in introducing re forms aimed at removing the last vestiges of communist Hungary and East Germany have already held free multiparty elections in which the communists were overwhelmingly multiparty voting is scheduled for later this Spring in Romania and Poland partially free parliamentary elections last june were part of a historic at the unprecedented Power sharing Compromise with communist in the the Solidarity led opposition was allowed to compete for 35 per cent of the seats in the lower House of parliament and All the seats in the newly created Solidarity won All but one of the 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